Mail-delivery bag.



PATENTED JULY 14, 1903.

No.A 733,765.

J. E. STROH. MAIL DELIVERY BAG.

APPLIOATION FILED un. 16. 190s.

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PATENTED JULY 14, 1903.v

J. F. STROH. MAIL DELIVERY BAG.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 16. 1903,

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UNITED STATES Patented July 14, i903.

PATENT OFFICE.

MAIL-DELIVERY BAG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 733,765, dated July 14, 1903. Application filed January 16, 1903. Serial No. 139,318. (No model.)

To ttl whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JANE FRANK STROH, a citizen ofthe United States, and a resident of Pittston, in the county of Luzerne and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Mail-Delivery Bag, of which the following is a full', clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in mail-delivery bags especially designed for use by letter-carriers in the delivery of mail-matteralthough the article maybe used by other persons and for other purposes.

In this invention I aim to prod uce a simple, compact, and strong construction wherein mail-matter of different classes and articles useful to the operator may be safely carried and arranged in such a Way that access may be obtained Without loss of time to any desired class of mail or other articles contained in the bag.

Further objects and advantages of the invention will appear in the course of the'subjoined description, and the novelty will be defined by the annexed claims. v

Reference is to be had to the-accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures."

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a mail-delivery bag embodying my invention, showing the liap in an open position and the front portion of the bag partly broken away to illustrate the arrangement of certain compartments. Fig. 2 is a vertical section on the line 2 2 of Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a similar section on the line 3 3 of Fig. l, and Fig. 4 is a horizontal section on the line 4 4 of Fig. l.

The delivery-bag shown by the accompanying drawings consists of a front 5, a back 6, the ends 7, and a bottom 8. The ends and bottom are preferably made of a continuous length of the desired shape, and this piece together with the front and back are united in a suitable Way-as, for example, by the seams 9. Within the pouch or compartment formed by the bag is secured a partition 10, arranged close to and parallel with the front 5 and adapted to form therewith an intermediate narrow front compartment 11. The end and bottom edges of the partition 10 are sewed or otherwise united to the bag; but the top edge of said partition is unattached, thus leaving an open mouth to the compartment 11.

12 designates pocket-flaps, which are secured at their side and bottom edges to the back wall 6 of the bag, saidflaps forming with the back wall intermediate pockets 13. (See Figs. 1, 2, and 4.) The pockets 13 are disposed in vertical positions and on opposite sides of the middle portion of the bag at the back thereof.

14 designates a back partition, which is secured at its lower edge portion and side edge portions, as at 14a, to the back Wall 6 and at its middle, as at 14", also to the back wall. The lower edge of this back partition terminates a short distance above the bottom 8 of the bag, and the partition 14 runs upwardly a lsuitable distance, so as to partially overlap the pocket-flaps 12, the middle portion of the partition 14 being secured at 14h to the back wall at points between the two pocket-flaps 12. This back partition extends nearly from side to side of the bag, and it forms with the back wall 6 the large compartments 1.5, the pockets 12 being partly inclosed within said compartments 15. I also provide another back partition 16, which is united at its lower edge to the back wall 6 and bottom 8 by one of theseams 9. Said second partition 16 eX- tends from the bottointo the top of the bag and from side to side thereof, Vas shown more clearly by Figs. 1, 2, and 4, and this second partition is provided with recesses 17, formed in the upper edge thereof, said recesses pro` viding an intermediate tongue 18, the top edge of which is united by a binding 19 to the upper mouth portion of the bag.v The recesses 17 in the upper edge of the second partition 16 are bound or lapped, as at 20, in order to reinforce the edge portions of said recesses,

and these recesses provide openings or spaces through which are exposed the compartments 15 and the pockets 13. The partition 16 forms with the partition 14 and the backa large compartment 2l, to which access may easily be obtained through the openings produced by the recesses 17, and said partition 16 is in opposing relation to the front partition 10, thus producing the main chamber 22 of the bag between the bottom 8, the ends 7, and the partitions 10 16.

The bag is equipped with a flap 23, arranged to fold over the upper mouth portion of said bag, and it is also equipped with a shoulderstrap 24, which is attached to the side portions of the bag in any suitable way, said shoulder-strap being indicated in Fig. 1.

The compartments 11 and 22 ot' the bag are adapted to receive pieces of mail-matter or any other articles which it is desired to carry,while the compartments 21 receive. registered packages and the registry-book with which lettercarriers are usually supplied. The compartments 13 may receive registered letters or the like. The tongue 1S of the second partition 16 is also provided with small pockets 25 26, adapted to receive a stamp-book and a leadpencil, respectively, as indicated by Figs. 1 and 3. The flap 23 may be equipped with a strap 27, adapted to engage with a buckle 2S, thus making provision for holding the flap securely closed across the open end of the bag.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. A delivery-bag provided wit-l1 a back partition having recesses or openings, and back pockets exposed through said recesses or openings of the back partition.

2. A delivery-bag having a back partition provided with openings at its upper portion, and a second partition secured to said bag and disposed within the first partition to form therewith and with the back a series of pockets, said pockets being exposed through the openings in the first partition.

3. A delive1ybag having a back partition provided with openings in its upper portion and with a central tongue, pockets on the back of the bag and exposed through said openings and between said tongue of the partition, and another partition secured to the back and at points between the back pockets, said second partition forming with the first partition and with the back a series of pockets, access to which is obtained through the openings of the first partition.

4. A delivery-bag having a back partition secured at its sides and middle portions to the back of the bag and forming therewith intermediate pockets, back pockets on the back of the bag and partly overlapped by the said partition, and a recessed partition secured to the back of the bag to overlap the first partition, said pockets being exposed through the recesses of the last-named partition.

5. A delivery-bag having a partition provided with recesses arranged to form an intermediate tongue and secured to the back of the bag, another partition secured at its side and middle portions to the back of the bag and having its top edge partly exposed through the recesses or openings of the first partition, back pockets partly exposed above the second partition and through the openings of the first partition, and similar pockets on the tongue of the first partition.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JANE FRANK STROIT.

Witnesses:

GEO. D. STROH, F. II. KYTE. 

